Pueblo Community College Fremont Campus teacher Mark Pretz arrested for sexual assault on a child

By Christy Steadman

steadmanc@canoncitydailyrecord.com

Posted:
09/12/2013 09:06:24 PM MDT

Mark Pretz

A Cañon City educator is facing charges of sexual assault on a child.

Mark Gerard Pretz, 60, a part-time math teacher at Pueblo Community College Fremont Campus, will have charges filed at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday in Fremont County District Court.

Pretz is being held in the Fremont County Detention Center on charges of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, sexual assault on a child under 15 years of age and incest.

According to a probable cause affidavit by Fremont County Det. Bruce Briscoe, Pretz was arrested Sept. 5 after an investigation that alleges Pretz had sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl. The affidavit states that Pretz allegedly had inappropriately touched the girl on one or more occurrences near the end of the school year in May.

Pretz is being held on a $50,000 cash-only bond with a condition of no contact with any underage persons upon his release.

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